primrose path
An easy and pleasant lifeAn easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation.
» Once arrived in Canada, the settler soon found that he had no primrose path before him.
Meaning
3 sensesAn easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation.
1911, Frederic Taber Cooper, Preface to The Craftsmanship of Writing, The laurels of authorship are worth the winning largely because there is no primrose path leading to them.
A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error.
(euphemistic)The life of prostitution.
a life of ease and pleasure
Examples
1 sentencesOnce arrived in Canada, the settler soon found that he had no primrose path before him.
Origin
Coined by William Shakespeare in 1609 in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1,Coined by William Shakespeare in 1609 in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 3: "Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads".
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Forms
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